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jeogori
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Also known as tseogori

' or ' (; ) is a basic upper garment of the , a traditional Korean garment, which has been worn by both men and women. Men usually wear the with a baji or pants while women wear the with chima, or skirts. It covers the arms and upper part of the wearer's body. ==Etymology== The has been worn since ancient times and went by a variety of names such as (), (), and () in the Three Kingdoms period (57 BC – 668 AD).

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A jeogori with goreum (ribbon)
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' or ' (; ) is a basic upper garment of the , a traditional Korean garment, which has been worn by both men and women. Men usually wear the with a baji or pants while women wear the with chima, or skirts. It covers the arms and upper part of the wearer's body. ==Etymology== The has been worn since ancient times and went by a variety of names such as (), (), and () in the Three Kingdoms period (57 BC – 668 AD).

Although it is unknown when the term began to be used to refer to the garment, it is assumed to have appeared in the late Goryeo period around King Chungnyeol's reign. The first historical document to mention the ' is in the () of Queen Wongyeong, which was a funeral ceremony for carrying the coffin out of the palace. The document written in 1420 during the second reign of Sejong the Great records () and (). However, it is not clear whether the record is a hanja transliteration of a Korean word or Mongolian influence. Before the Goryeo period, such an upper garment was referred to as (; ) in Silla. As the was a transliteration of the Silla language, dialect forms such as and still remain to present.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “jeogori” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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